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Lantouri (Persian: لانتوری) is a 2016 Iranian drama film written, directed and produced by Reza Dormishian. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival and in the Discoveries section of the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival. The film covers the story of throwing acid to the face of a young active journalist by a young man "Pasha" who is a leader of a gang of thieves and blackmailers. A gang that all of its members have been affected by injustice experiences in society.




Plot


Pasha, the leader of the gang of Lantouri, falls in love with Maryam, a social activist and  journalist who has started a campaign called "No to Violence" in order to convince the families of the crime victims to forgive the murderers of their love ones. Maryam rejects repeatedly Pasha‘s love and his feeling for her. Pasha loses his mind because of the rejection, splashes acid on Maryam‘s face and she loses her sight because of what Pasha did to her. Now, Maryam who previously convincing others to forgive criminals asks for justice and revenge, and requests “eye for eye” punishment.




Cast


Navid Mohammadzadeh as Pasha
Maryam Palizban as Maryam
Baran Kosari as Baran
Mehdi Koushki
Bahram Afshari as Bahram
Behrang Alavi as Saeed (Maryam's friend)
Reza Behboodi
Behnaz Jafari
Fatemeh Naghavi
Kazem Sayahi
Parivash Nazarieh
Nader Falah
Hojjat Hassanpour Sargaroui as Alireza
Ardeshir Rostami
Hossein Pakdel
Setareh Pesyani
Hadi Ahmadi
Amir Salehian as Daryosh [1]




Awards and nominations


17th Hafez Awards Celebration, Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal Award, 2016
17th Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival, Best Picture Film Award, 2017
34th Fajr International Film Festival, nominated for Crystal Simorq Award for Best Make-up artist, for Abdollah Eskandari and Mehrdad Mirkiani, 2016
34th Fajr International Film Festival, nominated for Crystal Simorq Award for Best Edith, for Hayedeh Safiyari, 2016
34th Fajr International Film Festival, Crystal Simorq Award for Best Sound, for Mohammad Reza Delpak, Saeed Bojnoordi, Hossein Mahdavi, 2016
32nd Warsaw International Film Festival, Competition 1-2, 2016
31st Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Special Screenings, Argentina, 2016




References






External links


Official Trailer
Lantouri on Facebook
Lantouri at IMDb

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Lantouri
• Maryam Palizban
• Bahram Afshari
• Navid Mohammadzadeh
• Kazem Sayahi
• Reza Dormishian
• Behrang Alavi
• Nine News Melbourne
• GTV (Australian TV station)
• Setareh Pesyani